Beer Garden

[Zills]

guys, that rooftop bar has reopened down Synaguoge Place just off Rundle St. I stumbled upon it tonight, went up for a look, and found out I knew the people running the bar. After chattin over a beer, they're also disappointed that the council wont give them a full time license. They're only open during the Fringe.
Please check it out caus its so cool, I felt like I was in Melbourne or Berlin. Its a couple of flights of stairs above the second hand bazaar place

It's called the Tuxedo Cat, I'll be working there as a sound guy over the fringe, really looking forward to it, it's a great little venue. They let our band play a gig there last year, great atmosphere but would you believe it.. the owner of CHURCH could the cops on us for making too much noise and 'scaring' his customers away..

[Omicron]

I just simply cannot get enough of water! Such a nutrious, hydrating, refreshing beverage to be had.

If anyone has an alcoholic drinking problem around here, it's Omi. -points-
His posts have put a new meaning to incomprensible, undecipherable, strange and odd, lately. I suspect he's always under the influence. Would explain the pecurilary odd behaviour of his at K-Mart the other day...

Good god; what on earth was I doing?

[crawf]

guys, that rooftop bar has reopened down Synaguoge Place just off Rundle St. I stumbled upon it tonight, went up for a look, and found out I knew the people running the bar. After chattin over a beer, they're also disappointed that the council wont give them a full time license. They're only open during the Fringe.
Please check it out caus its so cool, I felt like I was in Melbourne or Berlin. Its a couple of flights of stairs above the second hand bazaar place

It's called the Tuxedo Cat, I'll be working there as a sound guy over the fringe, really looking forward to it, it's a great little venue. They let our band play a gig there last year, great atmosphere but would you believe it.. the owner of CHURCH could the cops on us for making too much noise and 'scaring' his customers away..

Ha!

Hasn't Church closed down recently?

[Zills]

Ha!

Hasn't Church closed down recently?

yup, been closed for over 6 months now, guess they got theirs :p

[stumpjumper]

A few years ago, I had a role in the business management of the East End. I tried several times to get approval for a bar on top of the Rhino Room on Frome Road. I'm out of the area now, but I'm glad someone has got a rooftop bar going in Synagogue Place. If it's the building I'm thinking of, it has a concrete roof.

Another opportunity around there is another concrete-framed structure, the former Charlick Bros building on the corner of Rundle St and Ebenezer Place. It now has a restaurant on the ground floor and in the cellar, with offices on the floors above. There was a proposal to have a bar and restaurant on the ground floor, with a small hotel on the first and second floors with a rooftop bar. Think of the successful Russell Hotel in the Rocks in Sydney.

That scheme could not get past the government's agreement with the Liberman Group (the developer of the Garden East residential development and owner of the Astoria short term rental apartments) and Mancorp (renovator and lessee of the strip of properties along the north side of Rundle Street) that there be no overnight accommodation in the East End including in the Exeter, the Austral, Crown and Anchor and Stag pubs to protect the interests of the Liberman Group's Astoria apartments and the investment buyers of its Garden East units.

It's a pity, because the upper floors of the Austral and its associated building to the west of the main pub building are full of bedrooms which have been empty for years. The attic floor of the Stag contains 12 bedrooms including an octagonal one in the corner tower, also unused.

The same sort of exclusivist, anti-competitive thinking made the operator of the Church nightclub think that another nightclub in his street would harm his business, when in fact it would have provided an additional reason for patrons to visit the locality.

Similarly, lots of cheap and cheerful accommodation in the East End's pubs would have been good for the atmosphere of the East End as well as its businesses.

But as I said, no-one could get past the government/Liberman/Mancorp agreement.

[jk1237]

now that reminds me of the conversation I had with the guys running the rooftop "Tuxedo Cat" bar the other night. When I asked about getting a permanent license, they said the greatest obstacle was a large property owner that owns most of Rundle Street in that area (Mancorp rings a bell but not sure), who they say has quite an influence over the ACC. Aparently there have been a few complaints from neighbouring businesses against the rooftop bar, all of which are coincidently owned by this property developer, who doesnt want any competition in the street and is doing anything possible to stop this bar. If this is true, I think this should be made public, because that is completely fucked.
The other thing that the rooftop bar doesnt comply with is disability access, but they say that pales into insignificance compared to this other evil property owner influencing the ACC in not giving a license.

[Cruise]

[stumpjumper]

Ha ha. Very amusing, and I've been a member at Alberton for years.

You could do a Sturt one - just change 'Go To Jail' to 'Go To Church'.

If I bedded a lady wearing the Crows strip, I'd make the opposite interpretation - I'd think she obviously wanted to get scr*wed yet again!

[Cruise]

Sturt, Sturt rub'em in the dirt

[Cruise]

I have worked out i will make it through this depression, i have worked out it takes me 15 to 20 cans of beer to get drunk. which is approx 20 to 25 standard drinks, each carton costs me about $40 (or per pint at the pub it costs me $100+) so i have decided this is an extremelly expensive way to drink.

I can instead buy a cask of cheap red for $10, which means i will be in effect slicing my alcohol bill.

Plus having the smell of wine on my breath instead of beer will make chicks think i'm all cultured and shit instead of thinking that i'm a bogan.

Pure Genius

[Shuz]

That's just sad; you already drink bogan beer; either VB or West End... ditching that because its too 'expensive' and now you're drinking nasty goon sacks...

I do wish you all the very best in attracting women with casks of nasty red wine; A mating call which was tried and failed, several decades ago; But please humour us if you manage to ressurect the notion successfully.

[Cruise]

lol

[stumpjumper]

Kid to mother, after looking out the window at the washing line one morning:

"Hey Mum, what's my Crows jumper doing on the lawn?"

Mother, looking at the clothesline:

"Damn! Some thief's pinched the clothes pegs!"

[Queen Anne]

If I bedded a lady wearing the Crows strip, I'd make the opposite interpretation - I'd think she obviously wanted to get scr*wed yet again!

Words fail me

[thechap]

If the majority of the population knew why we got that moniker I would have no problem with it. However in reality people think that we are the city of churches because we are such a boring place that going to church is all there is to do.

Do you really think Australians are that stupid?

Will, most people understand why we are called the city of churches. And why is there anything that wrong with being called the city of churches? It is immature and naieve of you to suggest that we may be thought less of by other states / countries if this is our moniker. SA is also called the festival state and as far as I can tell we don't have that many more festivals than other states these days, but I don't see you getting all riled up about that label. You obviously have some personal insecurities to do with christianity, but it's not fair to suggest that we lose part of our history for it mate. Besides, I think its an apt name - out in greater adelaide, there is a church every few blocks, they're everywhere!

Please read my post again for I did not state that all Australians are stupid, but one cannot deny that there are a lot of people who do not know why we celebrate Australia Day. In fact there are even people out there who do not know why we celebrate Christmas. The reason why i am bringing these examples into the discussion is because if we have people out there who do not know why we celebrate such obvious days of national significance what hope do we have of the wider Australian public understanding an aspect of early SA history?

And no I do not have a problem with Christianity, in fact I am Christian myself. What I have a problem with is using the moniker 'City of Churches'. One cannot deny that we live in a materialistic world where organised religion is becoming increasingly irrelevant. As such I do not think it is positive for our city to be associated with this.

You ask why I do not have a problem with the moniker 'the festival state'. I do not have a problem with it because from a marketing point of view mention the word festival and the majority of people will associate it with fun and excitement. On the other hand mention the word church and what words come into your mind?

Point taken about the festivals, and even though I am a church attender, I know exactly what you mean about 'church'. In fact, you've proven something that I have thought for a long time. We've known that the current model of church is near useless for a long time and personally I'm ready to experiment with alternatives. You said that we live in a materialistic world where organised religion is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Whilst I think the way church is conceptualised needs to change, I don't think materialism should be the driving force. I think we should be changing the way we do 'church' in order that we might fight against materialism, not accomodate it. It's nice to find someone who is willing to talk about it though, usually whenever I bring this stuff up I get shot down in flames imediately!